War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . SCENES IN SOUTH AFRICA.—1. Crocodile River. 2. Railway Sation, Crocodile Poort. 4. Alkmaar. 5. Tunnel on Nethei lands—Delagoa Bay DEFENCES OF THE KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES. CHAPTER VIII. THE BOERS SIDE OF THE CASE. With the British and American views of the Boer before us, this pre-sentation would be incomplete without something about the Boersfrom their own standpoint. Dr. F. V. Engele
War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . SCENES IN SOUTH AFRICA.—1. Crocodile River. 2. Railway Sation, Crocodile Poort. 4. Alkmaar. 5. Tunnel on Nethei lands—Delagoa Bay DEFENCES OF THE KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES. CHAPTER VIII. THE BOERS SIDE OF THE CASE. With the British and American views of the Boer before us, this pre-sentation would be incomplete without something about the Boersfrom their own standpoint. Dr. F. V. Engelenburg, editor of thePretoria Volksstem, recently wrote the following account of the Boersand the situation. He said: South Africa is poor, extremely poor, in spite of its gold output ofnearly two millions a month and its diamond export of five millions ayear. The disabilities from which South Africa suffers are manifold. Theclimate is glorious, the soil fertile, but the rainfall is uncertain andirregular. There are large tracts where rain falls only once everyfour or five years; and, where circumstances are more favorable, thereare no natural reservoirs in which water can be stored, or certainly noneto any appreciable extent. The rivers, dry in summer time, becomefoaming torrents in the rainy season, and pour the whole of theirwater
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